Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature.
Murphy, Laura T.
Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (265 pages) - Western African Studies . - Western African Studies .
Intro -- Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One Against Amnesia: Metaphor and Memory in West Africa -- Two Magical Capture in a Landscape of Terror: The Trope of the Body in the Bag in Amos Tutuola's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts -- Three Geographies of Memory: Mapping Slavery's Recurrence in Ben Okri's The Famished Road -- Four The Curse of Constant Remembrance: The Belated Trauma of the Slave Trade in Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments -- Five Childless Mothers and Dead Husbands: The Enslavement of Intimacy and Ama Ata Aidoo's Secret Language of Memory -- Six The Suffering of Survival -- Epilogue The Future of the Past: The New Historical Fiction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Through an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the the transatlantic slave trade, Metaphor and the Slave Trade shows how the horrors of slavery are communicated from generation to generation and persist in West African discourse.
9780821444122
Electronic books.
PR9340.5 -- .M87 2012eb
820.93580966
Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (265 pages) - Western African Studies . - Western African Studies .
Intro -- Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One Against Amnesia: Metaphor and Memory in West Africa -- Two Magical Capture in a Landscape of Terror: The Trope of the Body in the Bag in Amos Tutuola's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts -- Three Geographies of Memory: Mapping Slavery's Recurrence in Ben Okri's The Famished Road -- Four The Curse of Constant Remembrance: The Belated Trauma of the Slave Trade in Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments -- Five Childless Mothers and Dead Husbands: The Enslavement of Intimacy and Ama Ata Aidoo's Secret Language of Memory -- Six The Suffering of Survival -- Epilogue The Future of the Past: The New Historical Fiction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Through an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with the the transatlantic slave trade, Metaphor and the Slave Trade shows how the horrors of slavery are communicated from generation to generation and persist in West African discourse.
9780821444122
Electronic books.
PR9340.5 -- .M87 2012eb
820.93580966